Separated by a Common Language

The 2025  Separated by a Common Language UK-to-US Word of the Year is: fiddly  Here's an English teacher explaining the word Someone mig...

I may have promised another topic for this month's blog...but another request has (orig. AmE) come over the transom , and I'm easil...

A great thing about being Facebook friends with linguists is that I get to benefit from their daily observations of English. Here's a re...

A shorter (maybe), quicker and earlier post this month, since I am going to be travel( l )ing without much internet access in September and ...

On my way home from work, I pass the windowless side of an end-of-terrace house , on which this sign is posted: Such signs are a common sigh...